Everton 2 Hull City Tigers 1
A surprisingly evenly-matched contest had its tipping point after almost an hour, and fittingly it involved a player who is looking more and more like Malcolm Gladwell. Steven Pienaar, on […]
View ArticleCrystal Palace 0 Everton 0
You have probably gathered already that the lack of a preview for this game was in fact an achingly post-post-modern comment on a match in which almost nothing of any […]
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Ahoy hoy! It’s been a while. International breaks are normally an absolute nuisance but it’s allowed This Is Not Football some valuable time to find a way around the stringent […]
View ArticleEverton 3 Liverpool 3
‘These are nothing special. The only thing we have to fear here is just being typical Everton’. Five minutes later Philippe Coutinho is left completely unmarked at a corner and […]
View ArticleEverton 4 Stoke City 0
First of all, an apology. Last week, while musing on how Roberto Martinez would cope with the absence of Leighton Baines, we deduced that Bryan Oviedo’s absence from the derby […]
View ArticleEverton 4 Fulham 1
As ‘wake up calls’ go, a 4-1 win that takes you up into fourth place is far from the worst sort. Despite Roberto Martinez’s warnings about taking Fulham lightly though, […]
View ArticleEverton 2 Norwich City 0
Welcome to Goodison Park. Wipe your feet and leave the points at the door. Chris Hughton’s Norwich were simply the latest in a long line of barbecue-coated Christians thrown to […]
View ArticleWest Bromwich Albion 1 Everton 1
A point away at a traditionally quite tough place, against a side out to impress a new manager, wouldn’t normally be sniffed at. However, with Liverpool dropping points at home […]
View ArticleLiverpool 4 Everton 0
Is it safe to look yet? Have they stopped scoring? Just where do you start with a night like that? Remember against Queens Park Rangers, when we said that Antolin […]
View ArticleEverton 2 Aston Villa 1
Winning this game probably isn’t that significant in the big sweep of things. Losing though, that would have felt catastrophic, so it was a sense of relief as much as anything that greeted the final...
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